A MICROFABRICATED DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MULTIPLEXED ELECTROKINETIC FOCUSING OF FLUID STREAMS AND A TRANSPORT CYTOMETRY METHOD USING SAME - Patent 1093579

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EP 1 093 579 A1

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(43)	Date of publication:
	25.04.2001 Bulletin 2001/17

(21)	Application number: 99928693.3

(22)	Date of filing: 16.06.1999

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: G01N 27/26, G01N 27/447

(86)	International application number:
	PCT/US9913/542

(87)	International publication number:
	WO 9966/318 (23.12.1999 Gazette 1999/51)

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

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Priority:

16.06.1998 US 98178

(71)	Applicant: UT-Battelle, LLC
	Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6498 (US)

(72)	Inventors:
	JACOBSON, Stephen, C. Knoxville, TN 37919 (US) RAMSEY, J., Michael Knoxville, TN 37922 (US)

(74)	Representative: Paget, Hugh Charles Edward
	MEWBURN ELLISYork House23 Kingsway London WC2B 6HP London WC2B 6HP (GB)

(54)	A MICROFABRICATED DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MULTIPLEXED ELECTROKINETIC FOCUSING OF FLUID STREAMS AND A TRANSPORT CYTOMETRY METHOD USING SAME